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Are Employee Background Checks Legal?

Small Business CEO

Before making important personnel decisions, be it hiring, promotion, retention, or reassignment, most employers prefer background tests on potential candidates and employees. Basic checks include the candidate’s work history, financial history, criminal record, medical history, and social media use.

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Customizing Coworking Spaces for Niche Markets: Smart Strategy Or Risky Move?

Allwork

Access to workshops and art supplies promotes professional development and collaboration. Ergonomic furniture and adjustable standing desks support posture and well-being, while healthy snack options and hydration stations promote overall wellness. Wellness rooms for meditation and yoga sessions contribute to a calming atmosphere.

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Why Volunteering in Your Community is Important

Success

It also gives the organization the opportunity to amplify workplace diversity of talent, whether you help out as a food-provider, receptionist, digital marketing expert, IT specialist, event coordinator, fundraiser or as legal counsel. Lending your talents as an influencer or social media expert can take an organization to the next level.

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How to Improve Customer Service: 7 Ways to Take Your Mission Beyond Words

Success

Surveys used to calculate your net promoter score can help you address pressing customer service issues you didn’t know existed. Companies often place customer service representatives in one silo and their social media managers in another. Yet social media is an integral part of customer service.

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New academic research identifies the four emotional stages of your career. Spoiler – it ends in disillusion

Workplace Insight

The study of UK legal professionals showed they progressed from excitement and anticipation at the start of their career, followed by fear and anxiety as they pursue promotion, to pride and joy at having secured a senior post, and finally experiencing disillusionment and disappointment at the lack of further change.

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Is Using Social Media at Work a Good Idea?

On The Job

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Thursday, July 22, 2010 Is Using Social Media at Work a Good Idea? Cavalli points out that social media interaction isn’t always about discussing a new movie or dishing the latest gossip.

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Tarte’s Dubai Trip and the Tricky Ethics of Influencer Marketing

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But younger social media users might not know how common these trips have been throughout the internet era, beginning with brands bringing excited vloggers around the world in YouTube’s heyday. There is no assurance that a viewer will have seen your previous post where you disclosed the gift or paid promotion.”